Ann B Shteir
Biographic Data
| ID | 447097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann B Shteir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann B |
| FAMILY NAME | Shteir |
| SIGNATURE | SHTEIR A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Botany, Sexuality and Women's Writing 1760–1830: From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant by Sam George Women in Science: A Social and Cultural History by Ruth Watts
Fac-Similes of Nature”: Victorian Wax Flower Modelling
THE GIGANTIC WATER LILY WHOSE seeds were brought to England from the Amazon in 1847 had been sighted a decade earlier in British Guiana by Sir Robert Schomburgk and described in 1837. Named Victoria regia and now known as Victoria amazonica , the spectacular specimen had huge leaves five feet in diameter and seventeen feet in circumference, and flowers more than twelve inches in diameter. Germination of the seeds took some time, but in 1849 three…
Flora primavera or Flora meretrix ? Iconography, Gender, and Science
Flora primavera or Flora meretrix?Iconography, Gender, and Science Ann B. Shteir (bio) During the 1770s, when Linnaean ideas about plant identification and classification were gaining prominence in England, the engraver and botanical artist John Miller's Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus was issued in both a folio edition and a modestly priced octavo edition in order to bring work by the Swedish botanist to wider audiences. In the Pre…
Perspectives on Garden Histories . Michel Conan
Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860
Gender and "Modern" Botany in Victorian England
Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's daughters and botany in England, 1760-1860
An exploration of the contributions of women to the field of botany before and after the dawn of the Victorian Age. Ann B. Shteir shows how early ideas about botany as a leisure activity for self-improvement and a feminine pursuit gave women unprecedented opportunities to publish their findings and views in both scientific and amateur periodicals. By the 1830s, however, botany came to be regarded as a professional activity for specialists and exp…
Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science . Londa Schiebinger
The Botanizers: Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America . Elizabeth B. Keeney
Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women's Popular Science Writing in England
IN THE HISTORY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE, popular science writing remains largely unexplored terrain. Women's popular science writing is even less studied. Yet, women's popular science writing was a distinctive feature of science culture in late eighteenth-century England, when authors such as Priscilla Wakefield, Margaret Bryan, and Jane Marcet wrote books on topics in natural philosophy and natural history. During the period 1790-1840, wome…
The Romance of Victorian Natural History . Lynn L. Merrill
Under the Banner of Science: Erasmus Darwin and His Age
"Albrecht von Haller's Botany and "Die Alpen
ARGUING IN Laokoon (1766) for the separation of poetry and painting, Lessing cites two stanzas, which characterize a patch of Alpine wildflowers, to illustrate the shortcomings of descriptive poetry. The stanzas are from Albrecht von Haller's Die Alpen (1732), a primitivist encomium of a kind familiar to readers of earlyeighteenth-century literature, and a poem well known at that time. Haller paints his wildflowers there for a specific botanical …
Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's daughters and botany in England, 1760-1860
An exploration of the contributions of women to the field of botany before and after the dawn of the Victorian Age. Ann B. Shteir shows how early ideas about botany as a leisure activity for self-improvement and a feminine pursuit gave women unprecedented opportunities to publish their findings and views in both scientific and amateur periodicals. By the 1830s, however, botany came to be regarded as a professional activity for specialists and exp…
Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women's Popular Science Writing in England
IN THE HISTORY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE, popular science writing remains largely unexplored terrain. Women's popular science writing is even less studied. Yet, women's popular science writing was a distinctive feature of science culture in late eighteenth-century England, when authors such as Priscilla Wakefield, Margaret Bryan, and Jane Marcet wrote books on topics in natural philosophy and natural history. During the period 1790-1840, wome…
Gender and "Modern" Botany in Victorian England
Fac-Similes of Nature”: Victorian Wax Flower Modelling
THE GIGANTIC WATER LILY WHOSE seeds were brought to England from the Amazon in 1847 had been sighted a decade earlier in British Guiana by Sir Robert Schomburgk and described in 1837. Named Victoria regia and now known as Victoria amazonica , the spectacular specimen had huge leaves five feet in diameter and seventeen feet in circumference, and flowers more than twelve inches in diameter. Germination of the seeds took some time, but in 1849 three…
"Albrecht von Haller's Botany and "Die Alpen
ARGUING IN Laokoon (1766) for the separation of poetry and painting, Lessing cites two stanzas, which characterize a patch of Alpine wildflowers, to illustrate the shortcomings of descriptive poetry. The stanzas are from Albrecht von Haller's Die Alpen (1732), a primitivist encomium of a kind familiar to readers of earlyeighteenth-century literature, and a poem well known at that time. Haller paints his wildflowers there for a specific botanical …
Under the Banner of Science: Erasmus Darwin and His Age
Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women's Popular Science Writing in England
IN THE HISTORY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE, popular science writing remains largely unexplored terrain. Women's popular science writing is even less studied. Yet, women's popular science writing was a distinctive feature of science culture in late eighteenth-century England, when authors such as Priscilla Wakefield, Margaret Bryan, and Jane Marcet wrote books on topics in natural philosophy and natural history. During the period 1790-1840, wome…
The Romance of Victorian Natural History . Lynn L. Merrill
The Botanizers: Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America . Elizabeth B. Keeney
Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's daughters and botany in England, 1760-1860
An exploration of the contributions of women to the field of botany before and after the dawn of the Victorian Age. Ann B. Shteir shows how early ideas about botany as a leisure activity for self-improvement and a feminine pursuit gave women unprecedented opportunities to publish their findings and views in both scientific and amateur periodicals. By the 1830s, however, botany came to be regarded as a professional activity for specialists and exp…
Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science . Londa Schiebinger
Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860
Gender and "Modern" Botany in Victorian England
Perspectives on Garden Histories . Michel Conan
Fac-Similes of Nature”: Victorian Wax Flower Modelling
THE GIGANTIC WATER LILY WHOSE seeds were brought to England from the Amazon in 1847 had been sighted a decade earlier in British Guiana by Sir Robert Schomburgk and described in 1837. Named Victoria regia and now known as Victoria amazonica , the spectacular specimen had huge leaves five feet in diameter and seventeen feet in circumference, and flowers more than twelve inches in diameter. Germination of the seeds took some time, but in 1849 three…
Flora primavera or Flora meretrix ? Iconography, Gender, and Science
Flora primavera or Flora meretrix?Iconography, Gender, and Science Ann B. Shteir (bio) During the 1770s, when Linnaean ideas about plant identification and classification were gaining prominence in England, the engraver and botanical artist John Miller's Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus was issued in both a folio edition and a modestly priced octavo edition in order to bring work by the Swedish botanist to wider audiences. In the Pre…
Botany, Sexuality and Women's Writing 1760–1830: From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant by Sam George Women in Science: A Social and Cultural History by Ruth Watts
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